Advancing Sustainable Agriculture

We are translating our sustainable design approach to tackle challenges across today's agriculture system. Research in the Gilbertson Group involves systems-level analyses and new technology development. In particular, we are interested in leveraging systems-level analysis to guide our design of new solutions to improve the inefficient use of agrochemicals.

Our perspective featured on the cover of ES: Nano discusses the critical gaps in applying life cycle assessment to proactively evaluating nano-enabled technologies for use in agriculture. ​

Our paper featured on the cover of ACS SCE proposes a new metric - atom conversion efficiency - for quantifying nutrient efficiency from acquisition to fork, highlighting the severe inefficiencies for nitrogen and phosphorus.